Dishpan-support



0. D. BURDICK.

DISHPAN SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.5,1920.

Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

' i UNITEDjsTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

'onLo n. BURDICK, oF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

DIsHPAN-SUPPOBT.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Onno D.. BURnIoK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford andv vitis imperative that she assume a stooping posture. I provide means which is simple in construction, light yet'strong andserviceable inexpensive to manufacture, and which will properly sustain av dish pan with its contents in position to permit the dishes being cleansed while the 'maid or other individual is in a natural dish washing position andl with the pan in such relation with a spigot that it may receive the. necessary wash water. Another object is theprovision of an article ofthe character set forth which can be folded or collapsed and thus while not in use may be stowed away in small compass.

The device possesses other features of novelty and advantage which with the. foregoing will be set forth at length in the following description wherein I 4will describe that one of the several fornis of embodiment of the invention which I have selected for illustration in the drawings accompanyingv and forming part of the present specification. Clearly I am notrestricted to such disclosure. I may depart therefrom in several respects within the scope of the invention denedby the claiml succeeding said description.

Referring to said drawings:

Figure 1 is van elevation of the article showing a manner of using the same, the sink being in cross section and a part of the waste pipe and other adj uncts appearing.

'Fig 2 is a perspective view of the appliance.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the same colla sed.

ike characters refer to like parts throughout the several views which are on different Y scales.

In Fig. `1 of the drawings II have illustrated conventionally the familiar kitchen sink, the same being denoted by 2. In connection with such a sink is illustrated one Specification of Letters Patent.

employed, it usually,

l united A practically duplicate body sections 6 and 7 constituting together a body portion. As observed, they being virtually the same,l a detailed description of one, for. instance that designated by 6, will apply to the other.

Said body section 6 has a strip 8 which as shown is somewhat elongated and made ordinarily from some flat, metallic or strap stock. In the construction illustrated the terminals of the strip are upset as at 9 to form lugs vor ears which are approximately atan obtuse angle to the pan supporting portion of the strip 6 and these lugs act together, the four of them, to limit -undue lateral motion of the dish-pan 10 as shown in Fig. 1. The two pan supporting strips 8 are deflected or bent downwardly for the major portions of their lengths, as shown ,best in Fig. 2

so that the end portions there- Patented Apr. 27, 1920.

Applicationled February 5, 1920. Serial No. 356,554. i

of merely support the pan 9. The two strips are flexibly united centrally of their lengths in some convenient manner, as by the rivet or. pin 10 the ends of which may be headed to hold the same in place. This rivet or pin permits thev folding together `or the unfolding of the two sections 6 and 7.

Associated' with each of the lpan sustaining strips, is a leg orsupporting member denoted respectively in a generalway vbyv 11 ,and 12. As these leg or supporting members are the same in construction a descripv tion of one will of course apply to the other and in this case I will refer in detail to that denoted by 11. The leg or supporting member 11. comprises a central practically-flat portion 14 the two portions 14 being ysuperimposed and receiving the stud or pin 10 to which I have referred. From the central portion 14 the branches 15 extend divergingly downward and at their lower ends are with the practically upright portions 16 the upper ends of the latter being united, as by rivets 17 with the lugs or ears 9.

pensively made. VVhen not in use the article will be folded as shown in Fig. 3. To use it the following procedure will be adopted. The two parts of the article will be opened out until they are transverse or at practically right angles to each other as shown in K Fig. 2 in which condition, said article will be placed in a sink and sustained by the rounded lower ends of the skeleton leg members.

What I claim is:

A dish pan support comprising a plurality of strips, a stud extending through the strips to pivotally connect them for transverse relation, the ends of the strips being upturned to form lugs, leg members each comprising a central portion, the central portions being fitted to each otherand receiving the stud to connect the leg members to the strips, each of the leg members havingrdownwardly extending divergin the presence of two witnesses.

ORLO D. BURDICK.

Witnesses:

JOHN BUGKLEY, HEATH SUTHERLAND. 

